Legal and Ethical constraints that apply to social media and website design.

Copyright

Definition: Copyright is a legal concept, enacted by most governments, giving the creator of an original work exclusive rights to it, usually for a limited time.

Andy Warhol was once sued for copyright infringement for using photos that he hadn't taken himself and changing them to make them his own work, although some people call it appropriation others would call it stealing. If people have copyrighted something and another person uses it without giving credit to the person it belongs to then they can be sued, copy right is exactly what it says it gives you the right to copy the thing that has been copyrighted.

Another case of copyright infringement/appropriation is Roy Lichtenstein, he painted Kiss V. When this painting was changed slightly and used as an album cover the artist of the cover was confronted with a claim that she copied Lichtenstein's work but Roy hadn't been honest about his original source, as it turns out the album artist had just used the same source.

Intellectual property rights

Definition: A right that is had by a person or a company to have exclusive rights to use its own ides, plans or other intangible assets without the worry of competition.

This protects ownership of your work as an artist, writer, photographer, designer, musician etc. It protects anything that come up with that may only be in your mind so far, inventions are sometimes stolen and that is against intellectual property rights because it was not their idea or work to use. 

Permissions

If you want to use something that has been trademarked or copyrighted and you don't want to break the law you can ask the person who copyrighted or trademarked it for their permission to use it. This makes us able to use it without any law suits and the person who owns it knows that it is being used, who is using it and what it is being used for.

Libel and sensitivity to groups of society

What you say or show in your work can be seen by many people of different genders, religions and ethnicities, what you say and show can offend people and so you need to make sure that you don't put anything into your work that can offend people because it may put people off buying products that you are advertising or they might even complain about your work and it could be banned.

Decency

Decency involves any rude explicit or inappropriate work, children could see your work any most parents wouldn't want their children seeing anything that they couldn't. This also affects people of different religions as in some religions nudity is frowned upon and again they could find it very offensive to see.

Safeguarding

Age restrictions are usually put on games and films to show that their content is for people above a certain age, this prevents young children seeing things in them such as nudity or violence. People who buy the game/film have to be of the age (or above) the age restriction on the game/film, unless bought by a parent, this is so that children cannot buy games or films that contain things that they shouldn't see but if their parent buys it for them their parent obviously then knows that they might see something of this nature.

Adding videos

I decided to add three youtube videos to my The Summer Set page, I used their three newest singles and now the page looks like this:

Wix website creator

Over the past few days I've been using Wix website creator to make a functioning website, I started using IM Creator to start with but after I lost all of my work I decided to use a different website and I found Wix. I've stuck with my original idea of a lyrical typography (The Summer Set lyrics) and photo editing website and I have really enjoyed making my website, I've used black white and red because they are simple colours that go well together and they don't take the focus away form the work I'm displaying on the website. Below are screenshots of my website.

This is my home page

This is my Lyrical Typography page which leads to the following three pages:

My Love Like This page

My Everything's fine page

And my Legendary page

This is my The Summer Set Page

 This is my Photo Editing page

Creating Sprys

Go to Insert, Spry and Spry Menu Bar (as below)

You can also add sub pages to the spry like this:

To do this you simply rename the titles in the properties bar

You can even add sub menus to the sub menus like this:

Starting a website in DreamWeaver

To start a website in DreamWeaver open up the application and click HTML

The page will come up as either a code, design or split page, this is how a split page looks:

You will need to add a title to your website (as above)

Make sure you save your website

My website

Originally I was supposed to make a website in Dreamweaver but now I'm going to use Dreamweaver to show i can make a basic website and use sprys and then create an actual website using an online template. This way the final product will look better and will take less time, it also shows that I can do both and so it could even get me more marks.

Logo

I've made a logo for my website using Photoshop, the name I'm using is Char Moon Lyrical Typography and Photo Editing.